Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:33:08 +0900
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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> > One other thing, if we decide to take the zones approach, it would have
> > no other side benefits for the kernel.  It would be for hotplug only and
> > I don't think even the large page users would get much benefit.  
> > 
> 
> Hugepage users? They can be satisfied with ZONE_REMOVABLE too. If you're
> talking about other higher-order users, I still think we can't guarantee
> past about order 1 or 2 with Mel's patch and they simply need to have
> some other ways to do things.

Hmmm. I don't see at this point.
Why do you think ZONE_REMOVABLE can satisfy for hugepage.
At leaset, my ZONE_REMOVABLE patch doesn't any concern about
fragmentation.

Bye.

-- 
Yasunori Goto 

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